KNOX – An ode to Dr. Bonnie Henry, on guitar and standup bass
AS THE VIDEO BEGINS, all you see is Gordon Campbell — no, not THAT Gordon Campbell — standing in his Sidney home with an upright bass. Then Diane Campbell, an [Continue]
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KNOX – Honeymooners in India scrambled to get home to Canada
THEY’RE NOT A STEREOTYPICAL COUPLE, so it stands to reason that they wouldn’t have a stereotypical honeymoon. Archdeacon Alastair McCollum is the English-born, [Continue]
KNOX – Would you rather be trapped at home, or on a cruise ship?
IN ALL HONESTY, says Metchosin’s David Kirkham, there are worse places to be trapped than a cruise ship off the coast of South America. There has been no sign of COVID-19 [Continue]
KNOX – When in Rome, wash your hands but don’t steal the hand sanitizer
THEY HAD to screw the hand-sanitizer dispenser to the church wall. With all of Italy desperate for disinfectant gel, and the dispenser tantalizingly close to the front [Continue]
KNOX – Michelle Obama sells inspiration in uninspiring times
FUN FACT: At 56 years of age, Michelle Obama will be the youngest headliner to play Victoria’s arena in the past five years. OK, that’s not true, though the acts that [Continue]
KNOX – No one voice can speak for the Wet’suwet’en people
TUESDAY MORNING, a group that included a handful of old white guys who looked, well, kind of like me demonstrated outside the Langford home of Premier John Horgan. In doing [Continue]
KNOX – Viral message – Keep calm and wash your hands
TO REPEAT: In 2003, a total of 44 Canadians died of SARS, and we panicked. By contrast, 8,511 of us died from garden variety flu and pneumonia in 2018, and we yawned. As [Continue]
KNOX – The dilemma of dealing with porn in public
IT WASN’T JUST that the guy was watching porn on his phone, in public. It’s that the porn was of a particularly bizarre and graphic nature, the kind where the average [Continue]
KNOX – Global epidemic fears trump the mess in the mirror
SNEEZING, HACKING sweating like a TV evangelist, hurtin’ like a country song. “I think I’m dying,” I told her. “I’ve got Wuhan coronavirus.” “Wuhan!” she [Continue]
KNOX – Those willing to stand for party leadership are few and far between
DAVID MERNER spent part of Thursday on the phone to a woman in the Maritimes, urging her to run for the leadership of the federal Green Party. That might seem odd, [Continue]
KNOX – A little creativity goes a long way when snow shows up
I WENT ON A TORONTO radio show this week where the host struggled to contain herself as I described Victoria’s brush with Real Canadian Winter. “Say it again,” she [Continue]
KNOX – Helping Prince Harry, Meghan and Archie enjoy some holiday peace
ASSUMING THAT they made it out of the McTavish crop circles by the airport, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s North Saanich sojourn is over. Confirmation came from [Continue]
KNOX – Statues, MeToo, Olympics and other milestones of the decade
WELL, THAT CREPT UP quickly: Another decade done. Goodbye Tumultuous Tens, hello Roaring Twenties 2.0. Wasn’t Y2K just yesterday? No. That was 20 years ago, not 10, and the [Continue]
KNOX – Steady, boys, there’s plenty of time left to get your shopping done
STEADY, BOYS. Not yet. No need to panic. There’s plenty of time. Take your coat off, put the keys away, go back to the couch. The Seahawks are on TV today. Some nervous [Continue]
